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THE FIRST BOOK OF<br/>
<span class=large>SAMUEL</span><br/> OTHERWISE CALLED<br/> THE FIRST BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 13
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Saul offers a burnt offering, and the Lord rejects him and chooses another captain over his people.
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Saul</span> reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,
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Saul chose him three thousand <i>men</i> of Israel; <i>whereof</i> two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
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And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that <i>was</i> in Geba, and the Philistines heard <i>of it.</i>  And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
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And all Israel heard say <i>that</i> Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and <i>that</i> Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines.  And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
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&#182; And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which <i>is</i> on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven.
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When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/13/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 14: 11.">hide</a> themselves in <sup>b</sup><a href="1_sam/13/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Sam. 14: 22.">caves</a>, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
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And <i>some of</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/13/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 14: 21.">Hebrews</a> went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead.  As for Saul, he <i>was</i> yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
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&#182; And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel <i>had</i> <i>appointed:</i> but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/13/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Unrighteous Dominion.">Saul</a> said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings.  And he <sup>b</sup><a href="1_sam/13/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Priesthood, Authority.">offered</a> the <sup>c</sup><a href="1_sam/13/9c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Sam. 10: 8.">burnt</a> offering.
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And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/13/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 18: 15.">salute</a> him.
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&#182; And Samuel said, What hast thou done?  And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and <i>that</i> thou camest not within the days appointed, and <i>that</i> the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
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Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: I <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/13/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Priesthood, Qualifying for.">forced</a> myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
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And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
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But now thy <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/13/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 15: 28 (23-29).">kingdom</a> shall not continue: the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath <sup>b</sup><a href="1_sam/13/14b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Called of God.">sought</a> him a <sup>c</sup><a href="1_sam/13/14c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Chr. 10: 14.">man</a> after his own <sup>d</sup><a href="1_sam/13/14d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Heart.">heart</a>, and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath commanded him <i>to be</i> captain over his people, because thou hast not kept <i>that</i> which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> commanded thee.
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And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin.  And Saul numbered the people <i>that were</i> present with him, about six hundred men.
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And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people <i>that were</i> present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
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&#182; And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way <i>that leadeth to</i> Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:
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And another company turned the way <i>to</i> Beth-horon: and another company turned <i>to</i> the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
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&#182; Now there was no <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/13/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 14.">smith</a> found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make <i>them</i> swords or spears:
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But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/13/20a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR ploughshare.">share</a>, and his <sup>b</sup><a href="1_sam/13/20b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE a cutter on a plough to cut the turf.">coulter</a>, and his axe, and his mattock.
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Yet they had a file for the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/13/21a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE an implement for digging and grubbing; a grubbing hoe.">mattocks</a>, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
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So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that <i>were</i> with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
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And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/13/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 14: 4.">passage</a> of Michmash.
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